Prolonged Financial Distress After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Predicts Behavioral Health

Stacy Buckingham-Howes1, Katherine Holmes2, J Glenn Morris3

  • 1Department of Neurology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA.

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